Kosmos

Culture, travel, fashion and culinary delights: the Kosmos pages of Lufthansa Magazin bring you interesting and useful tidbits from around the world

A question of context

A question of context What’s this postmodern museum building doing in the middle of the desert? Artist Anton Repponen illustrates the effect of context by beaming some of New York’s architectural icons to deserted landscapes using Photoshop. The project is called “Misplaced.”

Eloquent images

Diamonds, chrome, platinum, coal … South Africa is rich in minerals, but mining transforms the environment. Cape Town photographer Dillon Marsh points up the conflict between profit and nature in his photomontage series For What it’s Worth.

Fit for spring

Cape Town, the African biking capital, has routes that are open year-round both within the city limits and in the nearby mountains and on the coast. The big bicycle festival Lifecycle Week takes place March 2 to 11.

Whatever you pedal – a city bike in magical Marrakech, a gravel bike in the vast Agafay Desert or a mountainbike in the wild Atlas Mountains – Morocco is a fantastic country to explore under your own steam.

Culture clash

Where have all the flowers gone? In spring, these big flowers and horticultural shows make for blossoming landscapes.

Fields of flowers

Keukenhof flower park in the Netherlands delights visitors with 4.5 million tulips and 2.5 million daffodils, hyacinths and other bulbs each year. Keukenhof is spectacular, vast and open March 21 to May 19.

A mysterious “time garden”, a “Silk road garden” and a “peach blossom land” are just three of many poetic concepts being realized at the international horticultural exposition in Beijing (April 29 to October 7)

A laugh a minute

Two Scotmen walk into a bar … no, ragging the natives is taboo at the International Comedy festival in Glasgow, Europe’s biggest (this year, March 14-31), which welcomes a host of charming stand-up comics.